[cups.general] Alternative pdftops filter does not work any more

[Michael Sweet]

Till Kamppeter wrote:
> I have done some further investigations on this issue:
> 
> I have looked into the source code of Poppler and pdftops and there are 
> no traces for functionality to choose an alternative configuration file. 
> Even the ChangeLog has no traces of an upload with which such 
> functionality got removed. Only the man page suggests to use the "-cfg" 
> option. This is an upstream bug in Poppler. The investigated version is 
> 0.6.4 as it comes with Ubuntu Hardy. There are also no Ubuntu-specific 
> patches removing the "-cfg" functionality,
> 
> According to the man page there are command ine options which are 
> eqivalent to the settings in the config file. So I suggest to fold the 
> /etc/cups/pdftops.conf into the /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftops CUPS 
> wrapper script for pdftops in the form of command line options for 
> pdftops. Can you do this to make your alternative pdftops filter working 
> again? Tank you very much in advance.

You could also look at the CUPS 1.4 pdftops filter, which wraps the
installed pdftops and passes all of the needed options on the command-
line...

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